Word: hellcatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newest fighter is a direct descendant of the Wildcat and a factory mate of the Navy's crack Avenger torpedo plane. Its name: the Grumman Hellcat. This and little more the Navy announced, along with the news that a task force had crept close to the Jap's Marcus Island, thoroughly plastered it with shot and bombs from Hellcats and Avengers...
...Hellcat is strictly a war baby and the first fighter in combat service which was designed and built after Pearl Harbor. Shy, introversive "Roy" Grumman already had his engineering staff working on a bigger and better craft than the Wildcat when the war began, but they rubbed a lot of it out and started over again after they had talked to pilots who had met the Jap in combat...
...Hellcat (F6F) is a big fighter with a strong family resemblance to the Wildcat. It has the same square wingtips, a bumblebee body...
Report on Manners. One of the most mannerly planes yet, the Hellcat flies straight and true, which makes it a good gunnery platform, just about lands itself, which makes it ideal for carrier operation. But it also has the "hot" qualities a fighter needs: dazzling rate of climb, plenty of speed and lots of high-altitude performance...